Building telecommunications services as qualitative multi-agent systems: the ODAC project

The ODAC project aims to define methods and tools based on a formal approach so that a designer of telecommunications services can specify and implement a new service in the form of a multi-agent system (MAS). Our goal is to supplement the current approaches of the telecommunications industry by the use of the agent paradigm enhanced with formal methods. We focus on the works currently achieved in the project. These are related firstly to a service-based architecture of an agent-based system and secondly to our proposal for an agent-oriented computational language (AOC language). Both are based on the concepts of the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing standard (RM-ODP).